Women's Golf

UW-Whitewater’s Hofmeister Selected Judy Kruckman Women’s Golf Scholar-Athlete

MADISON, Wis.--University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's Ashley Hofmeister has been named the recipient of the 2019 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Judy Kruckman Women’s Golf Scholar-Athlete Award.
 
Hofmeister, a senior from New Berlin, Wis. (Eisenhower), is majoring in accounting with a minor in actuarial science and sustains a 3.68 grade point average. She has been a three-time Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team honoree, as well as a three-time member of the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll. She was named a National Strength and Conditioning Association All-American for 2017-18 academic year. In addition, Hofmeister has been a member of UW-Whitewater’s Dean’s List numerous semesters and received an academic scholarship from the accounting department. In 2018-19, she was recognized as the program’s Marty van Steenderen Woman of the Year.
 
Hofmeister helped UW-Whitewater to its third consecutive WIAC championship this season with a fourth-place individual finish. In 2016, she claimed medalist honors at the WIAC championship and followed with back-to-back runner-up finishes in 2017 and 2018. Hofmeister was recognized as the WIAC Player of the Year in 2017 and is a three-time all-conference first team performer. She owns the program record for lowest 54-hole score at 229 and holds the second-best 72-hole score at 316. On three occasions, Hofmeister has posted an 18-hole score of 74, which ranks as the fifth-best score in Warhawk archives.
 
Hofmeister is a member of the National Society of Leadership and Success and Beta Alpha Psi. She also is involved with the Veteran Warhawk mentor program and volunteers with Reading with the Warhawks.
 
Also nominated for this year’s scholar-athlete award were: UW-Stout’s Madison McCambridge (Sr., Boulder, Colo./Fairview); and UW-River Falls' Paige Isensee (Sr., Chatfield, Minn.).
 
The WIAC Scholar-Athlete Award is named after Judy Kruckman, who served as Assistant Commissioner for the WIAC from 1996-98. Prior to this appointment, she was Commissioner of the Wisconsin Women’s Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WWIAC) from October 1984 - September 1996. Kruckman was the women’s athletics director at UW-Eau Claire from 1974-84, and one of the original representatives to the WWIAC when it formed in 1971.

In order to be nominated for the scholar-athlete award, a student-athlete must have a minimum 3.50 grade point average. In addition, she must be in her last year of competition, or on schedule to graduate this academic year, and have competed for a minimum of two years.
  
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